Three things Rodents love about your home.

Three things Rodents love about your home.

What are rodents?

When we talk about rodents to our clients some are often confused as most people don’t associate the word rodents with mice and rats. Rodents also include hamsters, Guinea pigs, porcupines, prairie dogs and beavers.

So why did rodents pick my home?

When we think about the reasons people get rodents we start to wonder how dirty people are. That is not the case though. We get calls all the time from clients who has rodent issues and they have the cleanest homes.

Where there is warmth, shelter and a food source rodents can pop up in anyone’s home. Pet food, pet waste, bird aviaries, heavy foliage, and bird feeders are all attractants for rodents.

Rodents love to set up their nest in warm environments.

Rodents love to have adequate shelter so they can reproduce and have somewhere to sleep.

Having a food source can lead rodents to enter your home, garbage, pet food, pet poop that hasn’t been cleaned up, high vegetation, cleaning up bird aviaries, if you have fruit trees pick up rotting fruit, removing water sources such as pet bowls, bird baths and other sources that you may have.

What can you do to prevent rodents?

Go around the outside of your home cut down any trees which are overhanging on your property, get into the garden and prune any shrubs and vegetation.

After you feed your pet pick up their bowl and wash it, at the end of the day put your pets water away.

Take your bin out at the end of each day.

Wash up, sweep/mop floors and wipe benches down each day.

Seal any cracks and crevices in and around your home.

Remove any debris around your home so there is no hiding spaces for rodents.